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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe do when Captain Murray is hit with a musket round?
(a) Call for a medic.
(b) Kill the French soldier who shot the captain.
(c) Pick him up.
(d) Put him on a horse.

2. What does Louisa do when the riflemen leave the farmhouse?
(a) Stays in the farmhouse.
(b) She's with her uncle in the French troops.
(c) Goes to the carriage.
(d) Run to Sharpe.

3. What does Vivar say will defeat the French in Spain?
(a) The Spanish have a better army.
(b) Napoleon is going to die young.
(c) The French need the Spanish to feed them.
(d) There are too many hiding places for guerrillas.

4. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount at the dinner table?
(a) Sharpe's family history.
(b) How Sharpe saved Vivar.
(c) What Sharpe believes is in the strongbox.
(d) Sharpe's military experience.

5. In what direction is Davila supposed to go when he leaves Vivar?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What does Sharpe do when they are running for the farmhouse?

3. What does Sharpe tell Harper he plans for the troops to do?

4. How does Vivar refer to his brother?

5. What does Sharpe say he plans to do about the French to the French negotiator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Major Dunnet tell Sharpe to do, how does he address him and how does he feel about Sharpe? What does Murray suspect about Dunnet's feelings towards Sharpe?

2. Why does Sharpe withdraw his small force of riflemen he left in the woods?

3. What does Murray tell Sharpe before Murray dies?

4. What does Sharpe do to talk to the French and what is the French colonel's appearance like compared to Sharpe?

5. What happens when the French assault the farmhouse the first time and what does Sharpe tell Harper? What is Harper's response?

6. What does Sharpe order the Parkers to do and what does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses?

7. With whom does Sharpe dine the first night in the fortress and why do Vivar and Alzaga argue?

8. What does Sharpe ask about the strong box and what is Vivar's response? How does Sharpe respond to this?

9. Who does Sharpe meet when a monk wakes him and asks Sharpe to come with him and what does this person say to Sharpe?

10. What does De l'Eclin tell Sharpe about surrender and what does he say about the French army? What does Sharpe think of De l'Eclin's assertion about the French army?

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